Safety attachment



(No Model.) l

S. T. MOSBY.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT.

No. 486,490.A

Patented Nov. 22, 1892.

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SYVERT THOMMASON MOSBY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SAFETY ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,490, dated November22, 1892.

Application filed .Tune 25, 1892. Serial No. 437,981. (No model.) y

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SYvERr THoMMAsoN MOSBY, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Safety Attachments for Pockets, of which thefollowing, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying andforming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, sufticient toenable those skilled in the art to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a device designed to be placed within a coat orvest pocket and to give warning to the person wearing the same of theplacing of a hand or nger in the pocket by another person.

The object of my invention is to obtain a device which can be readilyplaced into alvest or coat pocket and when placed therein will permitthe person wearing the vest or coat and having a knowledge of theconstruction and manner and use of the device to place a hand or fingertherein and to remove such hand or finger for the purpose of placing andremoving articles from the pocket, but will prevent the insertion andwithdrawal of the hand or finger of another person into the pocket. l

In the drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is an end View ofthe device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2 2of Fig. l,viewed inthe direction indicated by the arrow; Fig. 3, an elevation of a coveringadapted to extend over a portion of the device; Fig. 4, a perspective ofsuch covering; Fig. 5, a crosssection of a pocket having the'deviceplaced therein and showing a nger partially inserted in such vest-pocketin a manner not to be affected by the presence of the device therein.

The same letter of reference is used to indicate a given part where morethan one view thereof is shown in the several figures of the drawings.

A is a frame bent up of spring-wire or formed up of spring sheet metal,as preferred.

a a a and or. a' are teeth or prongs on framev A. The teeth or prongs aa apoint downwardand inward, while the teeth or prongs a ct point upwardand outward.

The frame A, as will be observed by reference to Fig. l, forms in endelevation the letter V, and the teeth or prongs a 0.a, pointing downwardand inward on such frame, are adapted to catch a hand or finger insertedbetween them and engage therewith when any attempt is made to withdrawsuch hand or finger. In order, however, that no material injury shall bedone by such teeth or prongs a a c, they are made by me of spring metaland not of suflicient strength to tear the Iiesh from the hand orfinger.

B B are iieXible covers made of cloth, sheetrubber7 or equivalentmaterial, adapted to draw over the frame A and over the greater portionof the teeth or prongs a a a. The cover B has thereon the side or face band the side or face b. Side or face b does not extend to the points ofthe teeth or prongsotac, while the side or face o extends below thepoints of such teeth or prongs. The purpose of having the side or face oof the cover B extend below the points of such teeth or prongs is toallow the insertion of a finger or more than one finger in the pocketwhen the device is placed therein by placing such finger between theside or face b and the side of the pocket.

C is the fabric or material of a garmentsay a vest--andD is a pocket insuch garment.

When the device is placed in the pocket, the points a ct will engagewith the fabric or material of which the pocket is constructed, and thedevice will be thereby held in such pocket. When it is desired to placea linger or more than one finger in the pocket, such finger should beinserted between the face or side b and cover B and the side of thepocket, as illustrated in Fig. 5. When so inserted, the finger isprotected from the points a a a by the cover B and can be extended tothe bottom of the pocket. If, however, the linger is inserted in thepocket in the ordinary manner, such nger coming between the faces orsides b b of the cover B will come in contact with the points a a a, andupon any attempt to withdraw such finger it will be caught thereby. Suchattempt to withdraw the linger from the pocket will have a tendency towithdraw such device from such pocket, and this: tendency will causeteeth or prongs a a to roo engage with the walls of the pocket, and thehand or finger, as well as the device, will be held in the pocket forsufficiently-long a time at least to attract the attention of the personwearing the garment in which such pocket is connecting the ends,extending upward and placed. outward and adapted to engage with the fab-15 Having thus described my invention, what ric of which the pocket isconstructed, and a I claim as new, and desire to secure hyLettersliexble cover extending over the bar connect- 5 Patent, ising the endsoi' the frame and over the down- A safetyattaehment for pockets,consisting wardly-extending prongs thereon on the outer of aspring-metal frame having the ends side thereof and partially over suchprongs 2c thereof V-shaped, such ends being connected on the other sidethereof", substantially as deby a bar, with prongs on such bar extendingscribed.

to downward and inward, whereby when the de- SYVERT THOMMASON MOSBY.

vice is placed in a pocket the spring of the Writnesses: V-shaped endswill tend to hold the springs FLORA L. BROWN,

apart, with pointed prongs on one of the bars DAVID H. WILSON.

